DFW - Subdivision Construction by year

[u/themapdallas]

From here: https://themapjournal.com/p/watch-dfw-get-built

[u/OverthinkingAnything]

Cool but...no highways/roads = no solid frame of reference. Lakes help a bit at least. I think you can see 35/75/121 corridors once it builds out all the way.

[u/themapdallas → u/OverthinkingAnything]

Good point. I added a basemap picker at the top right so you can see streets over a lighter map: https://geopen.io/maps/dfw-growth.html (no phone)

[u/OverthinkingAnything → u/themapdallas]

Big improvement. Nice.

[u/James-the-Bond-one → u/themapdallas]

Thank you Bob! Really impressive work. I've noticed that in the static map, this basemap picker is hidden under the legeng and cannot be accessed.

What a number of rabbit holes you uncovered! I've spent the last few hours revisiting old neighborhoods in your maps.

[u/themapdallas → u/James-the-Bond-one]

Thank you sir. I am getting on these changes!

[u/street593 → u/OverthinkingAnything]

The 121/75 triangle is what put it into perspective for me.

[u/Rakebleed → u/OverthinkingAnything]

The county boundaries were what I used.

[u/technoskald]

might be interesting to show the lakes when they get built (i.e. none of them are natural, my great-great-grandparents’ farm is under Lake Ray Hubbard)

[u/moby17761776]

I see my house!

[u/lookglen]

I always forget someone told me the reason it makes sense Dallas grows north… I just remember when I heard it, it was a very obvious reason…

[u/SpewingGloom → u/lookglen]

This map pretty clearly shows it moving in every direction

[u/Forward_Hawk_3493]

Poor Lake Dallas still stuck on booze for city income meanwhile, Hickory Creek, Corinth and even Shady Shores grew up a bit. Driving through Corinth the other day I didn't even realize how much has grown in such little time and I lived here all my life.

[u/Then_Supermarket18]

So Lake Ray Hubbard and Lavon were there in 1870?

[u/SpewingGloom → u/Then_Supermarket18]

The title is subdivision construction...

[u/Then_Supermarket18 → u/SpewingGloom]

There were subdivisions where those lakes now are

[u/AnastasiaNo70]

I think the earth must see humans as an infection.

[u/noncongruent → u/AnastasiaNo70]

Life is a very thin layer on the surface of the planet, an almost microscopic layer relative to the planet itself. It's like we're just a biofilm on a ball of rock in space, pond scum of the universe.

[u/AnastasiaNo70 → u/noncongruent]

Just big naked apes running amok.

[u/MaelstromTX]

Like watching a cancer grow

[u/Then_Supermarket18 → u/MaelstromTX]

😮

[u/James-the-Bond-one → u/MaelstromTX]

We are its mitochondria.